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4 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 10 October, 2018 Serving Party and not constituents Dear Sir, Having had the opportunity to work directly with Mr Tudehope over the past year, on matters effecting aged persons, and his complete devotion to the residents of his electorate here at Epping and surrounding area, I find this decision of his, as serving the party, and not the residents, difficult to reconcile. This is difficult for me to say so, as my respect for Mr Tudehope as both a politician and a respected voice in our electorate, on many issues affecting our suburbs, is second to none. Just look at his record! Securing funding for vital residents benefits, as noted in your publication. So why is the Premier prepared to accept Mr Tudehopes’ decision? To overcome political strife within the party. And who pays the price? We do. A move to the Upper House is the least he should expect for his loyalty to the party. A job for the boys! No, not so, Mr Tudehopes’ integrity would not allow such to occur. Let’s not forget that these days voters do not necessarily vote for a party, they vote for the person who will represent them and their concerns. This is exactly what Mr Tudehope did. So, who is Mr Perrottet? He was prepared to stand as a candidate for Hawkesbury at the last election, given the same family concerns, so why does he believe PrecinctRoadshowFrontPostcardv1.indd PrecinctRoadshowFrontPostcardv1.indd 1 1 Precinct Roadshows are are on on the the way way and and coming to to your suburb Precinct meetings are are open open to all to all residents and and businesses. Precinct meetings are are an important way way r for our our Councillors to have to have conversations with with a range a range of locals of locals about about issues issues and and opportunities in the in the municipality. These These meetings aren’t aren’t all all about about the the big big issues issues - they - they will will provide an an opportunity to discuss to ideas, generate thoughts and and opinions, which which can can result result in meaningful change. Come Come along! along! Date/Time Precinct Precinct Location Location Meet Meet Councillors and and Council Council staff staff to join to join a in a Monday Monday 15 October 15 October 2018 2018 Boronia Boronia Park Park conversation on the on the unique unique issues issues and and 6.30pm 6.30pm opportunities for our for our municipality. Thursday Thursday 18 October 18 October 2018 2018 Henley/Huntleys Cove/ Cove/ 6.30pm 6.30pm Huntleys Huntleys Point Point For For updates updates visit visit Wednesday 14 November 14 Woolwich www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au, call call 9879 9879 9400, 9400, 2018 2018 6.30pm 6.30pm email email council@huntershill.nsw.gov.au or or Wednesday 28 November 28 Hunters Hunters Hill Hill follow follow us on us Facebook on @huntershillcouncil 2018 2018 6.30pm 6.30pm No booking No booking required required Monday Monday 3 December 3 2018 2018 Gladesville 6.30pm 6.30pm municipality. These Letters to the Editor he should represent this community? He does not! He wants to represent the residents of Castle Hill. What we receive is second best. Madam Premier, expect a backlash at the March 2019 election. GORDON BARTLETT Carlingford Train pain but eventual gain Dear Sir, With the rail line closure now upon us it can be easy to think of all the negatives and inconveniences that the shutdown will cause for thousands of commuters and for the many schools, businesses and Universities in Macquarie Park. However, we need to look towards the future. This time next year, our State, NSW will join London, Hong Kong and Paris with a world class metro system as well as a long overdue North West rail line. Anyone who has seen the efficiency of a metro system should be enthralled by the potential that this has in Australia. A train every four minutes will be far more efficient than what we have now and far more convenient than the ridiculous 10-15 minutes between trains for such a congested line. On top of this we will still have additional bus lanes as a result of the shutdown and a very impressive Stryder shuttle service from Keolis Downer. This time next year we will be thanking the State ideas, LETTERS generate Bedlam The Bay event shines th Government for such an upgrade. So when we feel the effects of the shutdown, just remember that our state’s infrastructure is finally catching up to the world’s. GEORGE TSINGOLIS Email EDITOR’S NOTE: Dear George, Stryder is NOT from Keolis which is a State Government sponsored service from private operators. Stryder is a community based service based in Gladesville formerly named Ryde Hunters Hill Community Transport. Livestock’s methane worse than CO2 Dear Sir, Has Robert Brock lost his marbles? His letter from TWT September 5 advises us, proudly I assume, that he has written to the new PM in shock that media reports indicate that Morrison is planning to honour the Paris Agreement and set some sort of carbon emissions target. Mr Brock states that “... so many of us were against Malcolm Turnbull ... because of his policies, especially... his support of carbon abatement…” and “...you must know there is no scientific evidence supporting...”man made or produced carbon dioxide as having any meaningful effect on climate or warming”. Well not quite Mr Brock as there is overwhelming peer reviewed evidence available wherever you choose to look. Our planet is warming For updates visit what you need is a hand EDUCATION around warning signs and risk factors is becoming more main stream. Most importantly, pro- www.huntershill.nsw. * * * motion of simple lifestyle email council@hunte International award www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au/precinctroadshow follow us on Faceboo Meet your Council 2018 2018 2018 Precinct Roadshow Welcome TWT welcomes letters from our readers. Full name, address and telephone number MUST be supplied, even if not for publication. Send to: TWT PO Box 123, Ryde 1680 or email: contactus@weekly times.com.au and that one of the chief reasons for the increase in temperatures is the release of CO2 as a result of the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas. And who burns these fuels - mankind. And since we’ve been doing it at such an alarming rate that extra CO2 has to be absorbed somewhere. Unfortunately at the same time we are deforesting and adding livestock and they produce methane which is considerably worse than carbon dioxide. And oceans are taking up that extra CO2 which makes them more acidic and this disturbs the balance required to support marine life. Our planet is already in trouble and the causes are already known and accepted throughout the world by the victims and the perpetrators of global warming. I’d certainly support us all writing to our local MP or our new PM to ask for their support in ensuring Australia to do more, not less, in the area of increasing renewables and drastically reducing our carbon output. Our children’s lives depend on it! MARK NEWMAN Hunter’s Hill Hunters Hill Guest Column light on mental wellbeing IN collaboration with Way Ahead Mental Health Association, The Happy Hens inaugural Bedlam at The Bay event will be staged on Sunday October 21. The line up for the day reads like any lovely day out should read: Picnics, games, singing and fresh air. The vision for the day is far greater… to shine some light into the murky and uncharted waters of mental wellbeing. No small feat in a world where more people realise the importance of “mental health” but our physi- ment and support of physical health and that for men- Meet Councillors and cal wellbeing gobbles the lion’s share of information exchange. conversation * * * on the u INDULGE ME to paint an analogy of the deep and wide chasm existing between prevention, treattal wellbeing. opportunities Vast, in this age of ever for our alarming statistics on teenage, mid life and senior’s anxiety, eating disorders, mental isolation, depression and suicide. If you are walking down the street looking at your phone, you may trip, fall and perhaps hurt yourself. As you sit in a crumpled heap, strangers and friends will gather around you. They see that your wrist is looking a bit limp “looks like a break” and within a short time your family or a friend will have come along to whisk you off to emergency or a doctor. “Yep, it’s a break alright, 12/09/2018 12/09/2018 10:26:56 10:26:56 AM AM Gladesville Road Road Community Centre Centre Henley Henley Bowling Bowling Club Club Hunters Hunters Hill Sailing Hill Sailing Club Club Gladesville Road Road Community Centre Centre The The Priory Priory To The POINT with ELIZABETH KRASSOI surgeon” and by that afternoon, six people have called to recommend one they know, you’ve had x- rays, scans a proper diagnosis and possibly even treatment. You will know approximately how long it will take to heal before you seek further recommendations from family and friends twice removed about physiotherapy and rehab. Whilst painful and inconvenient, you will have parameters, expert help and understanding support. What’s more, you know what caused it and you will warn others not to look at their phone while walking down the street! * * * BUT LET’S say you’re walking down the street and you can’t put your own finger on what’s quite wrong? Neither can anyone around you. How do you ask for help? How do your friends, let alone strangers, know what to look for in you and each other? And nobody is offering recommendations because to do so would be to admit that they or someone they hope to protect has been there too. Even if someone has the courage to say “something doesn’t look quite right let’s get you some help” it’s not as clear cut as an x-ray and a highly recommended hand surgeon. Yet help and services DO exist. choices to reduce risk factors is also on the rise. Organisations like Wayahead provide a hub of information and links to services in all areas of mental health. Their website also links to factsheets, forums, workshops and information on the A-Z of understanding, avoiding, managing and overcoming the road blocks to mental wellbeing. Sunday October 21 aims to celebrate all of the above and more: Yoga workshops, mini massages, art and craft activities, gardening and rambling by the river. Go along if you feel like a lovely day out exploring Bedlam Bay. Go if you feel like you would like to be better armed for the day when you’re walking down the street and a friend or stranger , or you, crumple in a heap. Bedlam at the Bay event will be staged at Bedlam Bay Community Garden on the Gladesville Hospital site from 11am to 5pm. Visitors are encouraged to walk or ride. If dropping off, enter from Punt Road and go through the old Gladesville Hospital grounds on Campbell Drive, or take the Stryder bus! Community Transport Stryder will be running a FREE shuttle service from Victoria Road into the park. For the full program and more information find the event on Facebook or visit http://www.happyhens. org.au/ See you there.. ELIZABETH KRASSOI is a Councillor on Hunters Hill Council for marine artist Ian ACCOMPLISHED marine artist Ian Hansen of Hunters Hill has won yet another international Award of Excellence. The talented Precinct Hansen meetings built in 1973 are for open Jack to received the for award our - Councillors Earl OAM, to marine have artist and yachtsman, who con his eighth international prize to date - municipality. at a Gala co-founded These the meetings Sydney a ceremony at the annual to Hobart Yacht Race ideas, generate thoughts and Precinct Roadshow International Marine Art 1945 and sailed around Exhibition & Sale held at the world in 1947-48 in The Maritime Gallery at the “Kathleen Gillett”. Mystic Seaport Maritime Hansen purchased the Museum in Connecticut, Meet Councillors yacht from and Jack’s Council grandson on in 2012 the unique and restored issues staff USA. conversation Ian has been opportunities submitting paintings in this sailing her to Hobart for her for to our her municipality. former glory, competition for the past the 2017 Wooden Boat 31 years and won For updates his Festival visit where a panel of first Award of Excellence www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au, experts judged her “Best call 98 in 1987. Small Boat.” This award is email given council@huntershill.nsw.gov. The painting was conceived Facebook from a @huntershi sketch Ian by the judging jury follow to us a on did on the return voyage painting that is “an outstanding example of creativity, insight and integrity in marine art”. Ian’s winning painting depicted “Smoky Cape in Bass Strait”. Smoky Cape was to Sydney, the log entry reads, 0740 sailing free in boisterous seas, wind WSW 20-30 knots, 4 rolls in polled out genoa and reefed main. 38 31’ S 149 28’ E. No www.hunt
PETCH VERDICT NEARS BY OUR COURT REPORTER A verdict is nearing in another farcical ICAC ‘blackmail’ court case with Ryde Emeritus Mayor Ivan Petch on trial in the NSW District Court for allegedly blackmailing Acting Ryde Council General Manager Danielle Dickson. The court has been told that Danielle Dickson used her key to access former Mayor Ivan Petch’s office, to “snoop” around with fellow council officer Roy Newsome, looking for incriminating documents for ICAC. Ivan Petch is on trial for allegedly blackmailing Danielle Dickson in May 2013, three months after Petch appointed her in the role of Ryde Council’s Acting GM. Court costs had been accrued in legal action initiated by Ryde Council against councillors, to restrain them from taking any action to terminate former GM John Neish in mid-2012. Mr Neish eventually left his role under a Deed of Release with Ryde Council, after he was found downloading porn on his laptop using council resources. His departure brought an end to legal proceedings, leaving the mat-ter of legal costs incurred by the affected councillors, outstanding. Despite expert legal advice from Bryan Belling of K&L Gates and Stefano Laface of AJL Legal, that council’s insurance policy with Zu-rich should be used to reimburse councillors, Ms Dickson - who had been delegated responsibility to resolve the matter - did not discon-tinue the ongoing Supreme Court matter. Mr Petch’s repeated efforts to have Ms Dickson reimburse councillors in accordance to what they were entitled to, are central to the “blackmail” allegation. Defence barrister Graham Turnbull SC has asked the jury to consid-er whether the pair›s four-minute discussion in the mayoral chamber was blackmail or «fatherly advice, about reimbursement». «There is no way in the wide world this is a demand, that it›s an unwarranted demand, it›s made with menaces or that it was capable of affecting anybody›s capacity to do what they thought was right,» he said. THE VERDICT is expected very soon. Check TWT Online for a esult. Details next week in The Weekly Times. Mr Turnbull also argued that Ms Dickson “was well acquainted” ith the Independent Commission Against Corruption before her onversation with Petch and her subsequent contact with ICAC nvestigators. “Ms Dickson was in the habit of making notes, making notes almost s soon as things occurred,” he told the jury. “She was also, you may find.. in the habit of speaking with ICAC both efore this event and afterwards.” In her closing address on Monday, crown prosecutor Donna Daleo said the then-mayor made “a threat of something detrimental or unpleasant” to Ms Dickson. Hundreds of villages represented! As The Weekly Times was going to press this week, Mr Turnbull was due to complete his closing address. This was to be followed by Judge Nicole Noman’s summing up before the jury retired to consider a verdict. The present trial comes more than a year after John Goubran was cleared on blackmail charges and Mr Petch was consequently also cleared on accessory charges. Magistrate Beverley Schurr, in June 2017, had ruled ICAC’s centrepiece allegation, used to justify its Ryde investigation, fell short of the requisite standard of proof, with the prosecution case flawed with major inconsistencies. The supposed plot, according to ICAC, involved a threat to ex-Ryde Council GM John Neish’s job if the Civic Centre proposal was not delayed until after the September 2012 council elections. But Magistrate Schurr found a fatal flaw in the allegation was the inability to establish an offence under NSW law which amounted to influencing Neish’s exercise of public duty, as he did not have the necessary delegations. The prosecution case was already in disarray after much of its evidence was ruled inadmissible by Magistrate Beverley Schurr, following 200 separate challenges to evidence by legal representatives for both Mr Goubran and Mr Petch, in October 2016. Counsel for Mr Goubran, Maurice Neil QC, at the time said “as little as five per cent” of one key witness’ evidence was admissible and the court had been “dumped with a massive amount of material held by a tribunal not bound by the rules of evidence. It shouldn’t happen.” We’ll have more in next week’s edition of The Weekly Times. MCC Board third attempt to change Constitution The current Constitution dates back to 2002 and warrants change. However, the “sticking point” which Board members have to live with, is a history of seven years of disgracefully unethical behaviour by CEOs and irresponsible directors. Fortunately for the College, there are enough members determined not to allow history to repeat itself. In March 2015 Chairman Sue Murray and newly appointed CEO Theresa Collignon sought to change the Constitution to include proxy voting. Previously, the College was under ASIC which overruled the Constitution. However in 2014, the governing body was changed from ASIC to the ACNC which gave the Constitution full authority with no proxy voting. At the March 2015 EGM proxy voting was rejected outright because former CEO June Heinrich had previously By The Weekly Times Special Team of Investigative Reporters (TWT STIR Team) Members of Macquarie Community College have been invited to a third Extraordinary General Meeting to change the College Constitution in just over three years. used proxies to stack the membership with hundreds of new members who gave their proxy votes without question. This scam was made even worse when the following year Chairman Sue Murray resigned mid- term amid screams of discontent from members and re-elected herself for two years with eighty proxy votes she gave herself. At the AGM held in May this year another attempt was made to change the Constitution. On this occasion proxy voting was removed and instead, the Board composition was changed to allow for four appointees, another misuse of the Constitution to stack the Board, making governance a farce. That attempt to change the Constitution was rejected also. Now, members are being asked to vote for a third time to change the Con- Alex McAndrew Memorial at Epping The late Alex McAndrew will be honoured with the unveiling of a memorial at Loftus Park Square in Epping this Saturday October 13. All are invited for the ceremony between 10.30 am to 11.30am with morning tea to follow. Alex McAndrew was a highly regarded local resident, author and historian. His work included writing illustrated books depicting the history of various districts he had a passion for including Epping, Carlingford Mobbs Hill, Conjola, Ryde and Mollymook. Alex was also a long serving member of Epping Civic Trust and founded the Loftus Square Park Committee. stitution, this time incorporating both proxies and four appointees to a thirteen member Board. The very issues which were contentious previously have now both been included. The logic beggars belief! Contrary to whatever rationale is proposed, the obvious motivation for changing the Constitution is the determination of the CEO to ensure her continued employment irrespective of performance. Naturally, with assets of $10million despite six losses in seven years, the College has obvious appeal. (8hb 2 cols) The EGM is to be held on the College campus at 263 Marden Road Carlingford at 7pm on Wednesday October 17. Incorporating Resort Living for the Over 55’s 10am - 3pm both days FREE ADMISSION Wednesday 10 October, 2018 THE WEEKLY TIMES 5 Vale Former Mayor Bruce Edelman OAM Former Hunters Hill Mayor Bruce Edelman OAM passed away last Sunday after a recent illness. Dr Edelman (79) was the Mayor of Hunters Hill from 1985 until 1987. He was also the founder of Hunters Hill’s State Emergency Services Unit and the first Controller, establishing the unit back in 1991 with another former Hunters Hill Mayor Sue Hoopmann and Ken Iles. A notable oral surgeon in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, Dr Edelman was praised by Hunters Hill Council in The Weekly Times in 2005. “On forming the Hunters Hill SES 21 years ago Dr Edelman used his home as a base and directed resident calls for assistance to Lane Cove or Ryde.” “To set up the SES he was given a small utility truck and a garage behind Henley Cottage on Victoria Road. “The house opposite Henley Cottage – now the Long Day Care Centre – was offered by Council to serve as the SES headquarters. “Hunters Hill SES is now in the Old Store of the Gladesville Hospital and is shared by St John’s Ambulance Service, centrally located behind the Gladesville Police Station.” A long standing member of the Hunters Hill community, he is survived by his wife Christine and daughter Sally. Funeral details are yet to be announced. HUNTER’S HILL COUNCIL HUNTER’S HILL COUNCIL NOTIFICATION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION In accordance with the provisions of Part 6.1 Notification Policy of Hunters Hill Consolidated Development Control Plan 2013, notice is hereby given that Council is in receipt of the following Section 8.2 Application modifying the previous Development Application. DA No. Site Proposal 2008-1096-1 27 Nelson Parade, Hunters Hill Section 8.2 - Retrospective approval of unauthorised works The plans and supporting documentation may be inspected at the Customer Service Centre between 8.30am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Written submissions will be received up until 4.00pm 9 November 2018 and all enquiries may be directed to Senior Development Officer, Mr Kerry Smith on 9879 9400. Lisa Miscamble GENERAL MANAGER Looking for information on retirement living? Visit the Sydney Retirement Village Expo Sunday 21st & Monday 22nd October The Epping Club - Rawson St, Epping (3 mins walk from the station) This is the big one! On display will be the latest resort style developments as well as established villages from many different organisations. All offering a wide range of services & facilities, sizes, prices and locations, all under one roof. www.retirementexpo.com.au
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